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By mad flyer - 21/02/2010 05:47 - France

Today, after my first flight landed late, I burned out my lungs sprinting full speed for 10 minutes to catch my next flight. The gate number on my ticket was wrong. It had been changed to one right next to where I had originally pulled up to. FML

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By it's v - 17/03/2018 08:00 - United States - Denver

Today, after my flight arrived late, I ran 60 gates to get my connecting flight. I sprinted up to the gate agent, completely out of breath, and he looked at me, shut the door, and said, “The door is shut. You’re too late.” FML

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By Anonymous - 01/07/2015 19:09 - United States - Tampa

Today, my flight was at the other side of the airport. I ran to the gate, to find that the flight had moved to the other side of the airport. So I ran again to miss my plane by a minute. However I did get a new flight... at the other end of the airport. FML

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By budadepressed - 18/07/2016 21:22 - United States - Burnsville

Today, due to a scheduling error, I spent an entire day and night in an airport, over 30 hours in total. Just as I arrived at the gate, I was informed that my flight had been delayed for another 2 hours. FML

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Late late flight

By Anonymous - 08/04/2023 06:00

Today, I was waiting at the airport for a flight when I looked down and realised that I had booked the wrong date. Frantically, I tried to rebook the flight, but it was completely sold out. Now, I'm stuck in the airport for the next 24 hours with nothing to do. FML

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By stk - 19/12/2016 12:56 - United States - Aurora

Today, I woke up at 3am to catch my flight back home, only to realize that my flight was pushed back 14 hours. FML

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By whenlifeisalemon - 09/01/2016 23:19 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I waited patiently in the airport as my flight was repeatedly delayed. After 5 long hours I approached one of the attendees to discover that the plane had left 5 minutes ago. FML

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By me. - 18/06/2011 23:54 - United States

Today, I was on a flight home. I wasn't going to arrive until midnight, so I was offered an earlier flight that got back at ten. I got to baggage claims and it turned out they lost my bag. I sat there for 2 hours. The people on my original flight left for home before I did. FML

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By Phantommajik - 10/05/2011 16:08 - United States

Today, I was stuck at the airport overnight waiting for my flight for about 5 hours. I then went and looked at the departures board. It said that my flight had already departed. FML

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Delayed

By melyeah - 02/03/2013 14:14 - Australia - Sydney

Today, to avoid a massive delay on our scheduled flight at the airport, we were generously moved to an earlier flight home. An hour later, our new flight had been cancelled and they told us we'd be stuck at the airport overnight. Our original flight took off fine. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/12/2014 20:12 - United States

Today, at the airport, a lady bitched me out for changing her departure gate. She called me incompetent and accused me of "messing with people's lives" by "making them walk." I didn't change the gate, and the other gate was less than 10 feet away. FML

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AlcaSMT 0

Sunday 21 February 2010 12:35

Always doublecheck with the flight information screen...

albinomustang 0

Sunday 21 February 2010 18:50

It's WRITE, dumbass, get a first grade education before you insult Americans, shit-for-brains.

Comments

chux4w 0

Sunday 21 February 2010 15:14

That was a 'FFFFFFFUUUUUU-' that could so easily have been a '**** yeah'.

silisand_fml 0

Sunday 21 February 2010 16:13

you must have been in Chicago. if you were, YDI for not checking the monitor!

rampatmonkey 7

Sunday 21 February 2010 17:06

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS check the monitors! They even tell you not to believe your ticket - you're a dumbass

AndyClara 39

Tuesday 31 December 2013 15:01

So true.

Starburstracecar 0

Sunday 21 February 2010 17:15

Oh man... this happened to me in Chicago last Christmas. Thankfully, they have a shuttle that will drive you to the other side of the airport. It takes awhile, but it was certainly faster than speed-walking/jogging the whole way. And, as an added bonus, I wasn't all sweaty and tired for the entire next flight...

girlieq3 0

Sunday 21 February 2010 17:38

This happened to me in detroit... We got off in Terminal 1 (i think) and the board, the ticket, even the gate said it was in Terminal 3 (or something)... we went over there with all the other transfers... 15 mins before the plane left the gate still hadn't opened... turned out it was back in Terminal 1 but they "forgot" to change the departure board or any of the screens. We had to sprint and a lot of older people didn't make the flight...